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To: dascallie

I live in Illinois and have never been asked for an ID.


2 posted on 11/04/2008 4:34:51 AM PST by mommya
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To: mommya

This should be a Federal law!


4 posted on 11/04/2008 4:35:30 AM PST by CommieCutter ("Why DON'Y you just let PEOOPLEP make up their own MINES who listen?“ (-Candor7)
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To: mommya

That is pathetic they don’t require ID. Actually, it is criminal, frankly.


6 posted on 11/04/2008 4:36:17 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: mommya

I don’t think any of the states require a photo ID, or any ID for that matter.

Maybe I will go vote several times today....
Got nothing else to do.


8 posted on 11/04/2008 4:36:30 AM PST by a real Sheila (John McCain may not be able to defeat Obama on his own but GOD CAN!)
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To: mommya

Same thing in illinois, just asked your name and address and handed you a ballot. This being illinois though, I am pretty sure I can go vote again this afternoon.


38 posted on 11/04/2008 4:56:00 AM PST by MrFred
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To: mommya

I also voted in Ohio on Saturday. You fill out a form that includes some written identification like your license number or the last 4 digits of your SSN. Then they take this form to the ‘back room’ where a contingent of poll workers check your information. After they make sure you are a real person they add your form to their own ‘passed’ pile which is picked up by someone eventually who then calls the names and hands out the ballots. So, there is a identity check (of sorts) and now you know the reason for the nonlinear ballot handout.
Here in Ohio if you vote at your own precint you need to show identification and sign next to your name on a sheet the poll workers have. I believe this sheet also has your last signature so there is an additional check that you are still the same person as last time.


46 posted on 11/04/2008 5:04:22 AM PST by RadiationRomeo
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To: mommya

I live in south central OH (Dayton) and am always asked for ID.


66 posted on 11/04/2008 5:37:32 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: mommya
I live in Illinois and have never been asked for an ID.

Ohio state law requires you to show ID when you vote in person. You have to show ID when you sign in.

I'm a little confused about him saying that he had to fill out an absentee ballot. You have to provide either the last four digits of your SSN or your driver's license number, or some other documentation that I can't remember in order to get an absentee ballot. You also have to provide the same information on the inner envelope that the absentee ballot goes into. That's the method used to verify identities of voters using absentee ballots.

I don't know how the new early on site voting works. I voted by absentee ballot this year.

70 posted on 11/04/2008 5:53:15 AM PST by untrained skeptic
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